Northern Ireland poll: EU membership an attraction for many voters in Northern Ireland
North and South also differ on the appropriate political strategy to adopt . Almost three-quarters of respondents in the South adopt moderate pro-protocol views, either favouring implementation as originally agreed, or changes jointly agreed by the EU and UK. Only 8 per cent favour hardline anti-protocol action involving either scrapping it, or the UK unilaterally changing it.
The most frequently blamed was the British Government – in the Republic , the North , and among northern Catholics and Protestants . Loyalist paramilitaries were assigned blame by 11 per cent of southerners, but very few northerners, either Catholic or Protestant.Sinn Féin was blamed by less than 10 per cent of any group and close to zero blame was assigned to either the Alliance Party or republican paramilitaries.
In the North, over half favour rejoining the EU, and just over one-quarter want to stay out. Three-quarters of Catholics favour rejoining while one in 10 want to stay out. There is a fairly even divide among Protestants: 36 per cent wish to rejoin and 43 per cent wish to stay out .
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